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Stack Exchange is mostly Questions & Answers Quora is mostly Questions & Opinions

• jrockway 16y ago
  Actually, it depends on whether you consider volume of upvotes or volume of questions. If you look at the highest-upvoted "questions" on Stack Overflow, they most consist of things like "what is your favorite programming comic" or "is perl still relevant". These are not questions that can be answered factually; they merely ask for opinions. Now, there are a lot more "how do i replace foo with bar in a string"-type questions, but those individually do not get many upvotes or views. So really, SO is both.
  • dtby 16y ago
    "Does SO experience a bike-shedding effect?"
  • codinghorror 16y ago
    there are a few of these type questions that are semi-grandfathered in from much earlier on, but now that http://programmers.stackexchange.com http://programmers.stackexchange.com is online for the more discussiony and whiteboardy stuff that isn't so code-centric, we moved the useful questions of that type there. The rest get deleted. (You can still get to them through the creative commons historical dumps, of course)